Memorable Quotes - Page 8

• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

  Agatha Christie

  Time, Book, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

  Agatha Christie

  Trust, Money, Concerned

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Thinking, Laziness

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

  Agatha Christie

  Crime Novels, Literature, Can Do

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Hercule Poirot's casebook”, Putnam Adult

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• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  Edna Ferber

  Inspirational, Women, Mean

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Peace, War, Women

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• If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

  Joshua Foer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Want

  "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

  Joshua Foer

  Meaningful, Significant, Colorful

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  Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

  Betty Friedan

  Real, Women, Enemy

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• How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Marriage, Art, Husband

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• There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Atheism, India

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• I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

  Judy Garland

  Age, Twelve, Garlands

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• I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Inspirational, Women, Mean

  Cranford ch. 14 (1853)

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• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

  Germaine Greer

  Hate, Women, Feminist

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Business, Future

  The Left Hand of Darkness ch. 5 (1969)

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• Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

  Helen Hayes

  Women, Famous Inspirational, Details

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• Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

  Amy Heckerling

  Mother, Baby, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

  Lillian Hellman

  Relationship, Change, Marriage

  Lillian Hellman (1960). “Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts”, Dramatist's Play Service

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• I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  Lillian Hellman

  Women, People, Speak

  "Untamed Tongues : Wild Words from Wild Women". Book by Autumn Stephens (p. 132), 1993.

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• I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sex, Women, Inferiors

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• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Acting, Four

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Cooking Dinner

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• Ronald Reagan was a traditionalist - who purposefully, effectively unleashed innovation and change in himself, in the nation, and in the world. He was a "great communicator" who achieved memorable intimacy with the people everywhere - yet he was often disengaged from his own family.

  James M Strock

  People, Innovation, World

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• People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

  Joan Rivers

  Happiness, Money, Funny Life

  "Remembering Joan Rivers" by Erica Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2014.

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